times of grace

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Impacting with the same bleak emotional pounding as Neurosis, the lumbering drone of Sleep and the stylistic flair of groups like Isis and Pelican, Morne are outsiders who dwell far beyond the trendy circles of post-metal or the insular enclave of stoner metal. Polish-born front man Milosz Gassan relishes his role as a mercurial outcast. When he's not working at a Boston theater building stage sets, he spends endless hours obsessing over every tone and… more »

Late last year, the Brooklyn band Hull released Beneath the Lightless Sky, a seething, lumbering monster of a metal record that contained within its elaborately-mapped sonic tunnels the story of Mayan brothers on two very different life paths. Their songs are epic in every sense: Most of them push well past the five-minute mark and contain deliberate leitmotifs, multiple movements and repeated melodic themes. As you might expect, they're not ones to stick to a… more »

Mike Hill is old school. The 42-year old Hudson Valley native has been in bands for decades, from the Boston/NYC metalcore act Anodyne, which ripped off faces from 1997-2005, to the post-metallic Versoma to Tombs, which Hill assembled in 2008. Their second album for Relapse Records, Path of Totality, melts together three decades of metal, punk and Goth rock into a single, flailing roar.
At the same time, Hill runs Black Box Recordings and has engineered… more »